Exercise

Our Health has a Strong, Quiet Power: Exercise

When we think about improving our health, it’s common for us to think first of diet, or supplements, or medication. Those things can matter, but one of the most powerful tools we have for protecting our health—and improving it—is something much simpler.

Movement—Let’s call it what it is—Exercise.  Let’s learn to LOVE that word, and not be afraid of it.

The human body was designed to move. I know, we’ve heard it and heard it.  But muscles, joints, the heart, and your brain function best when your body is active.

Movement helps regulate blood sugar, improves circulation, supports your healthy hormone balance, and helps keep inflammation under control.

And it doesn’t just affect your body. It has a powerful effect on the brain. It supports memory; it improves our mood, and research is showing that it protects against our brain’s decline.

Exercise is like a signal to the body. It tells all our systems to stay strong, repair themselves, and keep producing energy.

And it doesn’t take extreme exercise to begin seeing the benefits.

Walking, light strength training, stretching, or simply getting up and moving more throughout the day can make a difference. And small, consistent habits matter far more than occasional bursts of intense activity.

The goal isn’t becoming an athlete, nor to even have intense workouts.

Nor is it to be perfect.

The goal is letting the body do what it wants to do—what it was designed for.

The goal is also to keep your body moving daily.

Sometimes your path toward better health begins with something as simple as a walk.  Or something else you can enjoy.

And when we do that—sometimes even in small ways—the body usually responds well—sometimes amazingly well.

If you want to look for something to help you get started, search YouTube for something you’d like to do. 

Body Groove shows you how to dance to your own rhythm, however you want, so you can enjoy it.  Grow Young Fitness shows short exercises that take you from just about zero.  Both of these can be adapted to your own strength.

Your body responds to the signals we give it.
Movement may be one of the most powerful signals we can send.

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So, What happens when we don’t move our bodies?

Well, as in most instances when our body is missing something it needs, it adapts.  In this case, it slows everything down. 

But then it isn’t able to fight off inflammation as well; it doesn’t produce energy as well; it doesn’t jog your brain to be alert; it’s more satisfied, just being still… it learns to like it.  It’s satisfied not thinking of new ideas—new things to do and new ways to do things.

Long periods of inactivity not only gradually lead to muscle loss, but poorer blood sugar control, lower energy, and increased inflammation. Even our metabolism and circulation slow down. So, over time the body (and brain) begins to function less efficiently.  Because it isn’t being asked to move.

And that all opens the door to chronic diseases… diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, dementia, Alzheimer's, and all the rest.

Your decision for moving that body of yours every day is one of the most important decisions you can make.  Truly.

I’m having a 2-hour Group Coaching Session this Saturday, March 14.  From 10 am to Noon.  It includes a delicious light lunch.  It will give you a lot more information about how we can include—and enjoy—adding Exercise into our lives.

You’ll enjoy the fun and lively group, I have no doubt.  You’ll learn—we all will.  And you’ll be encouraged to change your life.  And lunch is good, too!  Register here, and I hope to see you Saturday.

Thank you for reading.  Let’s Enjoy this life we’re blessed with.

Please reach out to me—message me or email me, or call me if I can help you in any way.

Sharon